PT, short for Port Townsend, WA, we also refer to Port Angeles as PA. Port Townsend is 45 mins from our house, a wonderful Victorian Seaport. Whenever I have the chance I always enjoya long morning visit. Might end up moving there in a few years.

That second image (the "Ernst Image") is pure genius. I'm always trying to get a good shot of small boats like that, when I run into them but have nothing that approaches this quality. Your boat image is truly exceptional, an Ernst master shot. Perfect separation of tones, rendering of lines.

The first one is interesting and the composition is quite appealing, but the reflection (I think it's reflection, not sure) is a bit dizzying.

I've been to Port Townsend a couple of times and it seems like it would be a fine place to live. The last time I was there it seemed to have retained its authentic Victorian charm without giving way to excessive focus on tourist entertainment.

"God gave me photography so that I could pray with my eyes" - Dewitt Jones

I love that second one also. It gives me a powerful sense of symmetry, yet it is not symmetrical. The light is exquisite (thereisnolightlikebacklight). The boat shines white in slack black water. There is a barely visible reflection of her hull. The boat is nearly perpendicular to the pier but not quite, nor is the pier perfectly square to the frame. This creates tension, and I freely admit that had I made the picture (oh how I wish) I probably would have squared and plumbed everything up and roont it (no roont is not a real word). The mooring line is made fast to the boat with a perfect bowline and to the cleat with a perfect cleat hitch, then flemished down but somewhat carelessly, creating a little more tension in an otherwise utterly peaceful, perfect scene.

Another fine one, and another example of what a discerning eye can find and skill can render into image. If you weren't attuned to noticing shadow, line and texture, this scene would slip right by you.

Well done.

"God gave me photography so that I could pray with my eyes" - Dewitt Jones

I looked and kept looking. It is a fascinating picture, abstract, light, shadow, and reflection, perhaps most of all reflection. That for me was the head scratcher: what the heck... AH, now I see it (I think). It's a reflection of the fence boards in part of a highly polished car. And that's the attuned, discerning part that I would have utterly missed. Buuuuut maybe by hanging around Ernst long enough I might learn somethin'.

Ernst-Ulrich Schafer wrote:PT, short for Port Townsend, WA, we also refer to Port Angeles as PA. Port Townsend is 45 mins from our house, a wonderful Victorian Seaport. Whenever I have the chance I always enjoya long morning visit. Might end up moving there in a few years.

Best to ya, Ernst

I keep looking at it, but the first makes me dizzy. I don't want to look away, but I'm not sure I like it either. The second though is a classic, powerful, and should be on the cover of every boating magazine, calendar, website, and coffee table book. Oh how I love this one, let me count the ways! Powerful! S-

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